{"id":185820,"date":"2025-06-15T07:43:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185820\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T07:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:43:21","slug":"we-tried-new-glasgow-bar-with-wine-on-tap-thats-perfect-for-summer-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185820\/","title":{"rendered":"We tried new Glasgow bar with wine on tap that’s perfect for summer drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NEW\u00a0bar has opened in the city with outdoor seating in a sun trap that has cocktails and wine on tap.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If that doesn’t set your “I must go” senses tingling, then you and I are very different people.<\/p>\n

They say that as you get older, your palette develops to more ‘mature’ tastes like red wine and olives – that has certainly been the case for me in the latter part of my 20s.<\/p>\n

The Caravan Shop on Great Western Road has just opened, offering both and much more. I couldn’t wait to sit in the sunshine and try it out.<\/p>\n

From the outside, the bar, eatery and bottle shop has a slick modern exterior, and on this\u00a0sunny night,\u00a0a crowd of people were jostling\u00a0for a table to soak up the rays.<\/p>\n

I had to settle for an inside table, but this didn’t feel like settling at all\u2014the decadent and tasteful interiors felt like being welcomed into the warm hug of a Mediterranean bar.<\/p>\n

We tried new Glasgow bar that has cocktails and wine on tap (Image: Newsquest) A tantalising selection of wines lines shelves around you, and the dimly lit bar is bustling with servers producing bottles, glasses and cocktails that had my mouth watering.<\/p>\n

The cosy space has floor-to-ceiling windows at the front, making it a spectacular people-watching spot for those who indulge.<\/p>\n

I was gutted that I’d already eaten, as the food looked incredible. Everything from light bites to oceans of oysters and a full charcuterie board is available.<\/p>\n

As admitted earlier, I could not resist the olives, and a healthy bar-snack-sized portion of the Gordal variety cost \u00a34.<\/p>\n

The fresh, delicious olives only deepened my Mediterranean feeling, and I drifted away in a haze, imagining Great Western Road as a river running through a coastal town.<\/p>\n

These were served while my friend waited for their cocktail to be made, \u00a37 for an Aperol Spritz being a very fair price for the West End<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Image: Newsquest) I opted for the thing that had mainly piqued my interest in the bar – wine on tap.<\/p>\n

I sampled a 175ml glass of red Poggiotondo Rosso 2024 wine, and\u00a0enjoyed the experience and novelty of watching the bar staff pour it from a tap on the wall.<\/p>\n

While the tapped delivery system meant the red was slightly chilled, on a sunny day, it was a nice, refreshing experience away from room temperature norms.<\/p>\n

This didn’t detract from the quality of the wine either. It had a sharp, dry bite with the perfect sweet notes for me\u2014definitely not to be sniffed at for \u00a37 a glass.<\/p>\n

(Image: Newsquest) Other options on the menu are similarly pocket-friendly, with a Negroni tap producing\u00a0a glass for \u00a37 too, and change out of a fiver for a Guinness at \u00a34.50.<\/p>\n

I was glad to have given in to the temptation of wine on tap, and even happier to discover the bar offers more than just that as a gimmick.<\/p>\n

The Caravan shop is well named, on the sub-baked streets of the West End, it now stands as an oasis to welcome you, with wine on tap, to relax and lose track of time.<\/p>\n

It’s just a shame the caravan portion of the name doesn’t mean there’s a place to coup after too much wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NEW\u00a0bar has opened in the city with outdoor seating in a sun trap that has cocktails and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,66055,76181,712,16,15,76180],"class_list":{"0":"post-185820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-great-western-road","12":"tag-red-wine","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wine-on-tap"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114686263519405969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}